Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each handle up to 700 parties during the season, as many as 14 a day during the December peak. Ridgewell's can supply 200 silver table settings instanter. Hubert's even has Washington's drinking habits well measured-three cases of champagne for every 100 guests. Total costs for a little buffet reception of 1,000 people, including service, flowers, awnings and orchestra, run not less than $15 a head...
...enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...keep their enormous output from piling up. In January, the Department of Commerce reported, manufacturers' sales had taken more than seasonal drops, and inventories had jumped by $400 million, about twice the seasonal increase. Unemployment was still on the rise. The Bureau of the Census reported an estimated total of 3,200,000 jobless in February, highest since 1942. But the rate of increase had slowed up. New claims for unemployment compensation have dropped sharply in the last month. And there were still more people working than in any other February in U.S. history...
...rough time. In a Cleveland federal court, Timken Roller Bearing Co. was convicted of conspiring with its British and French affiliates to fix world prices of roller bearings and restrict competition. In Manhattan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., National Lead Co. and three individuals were fined a total of $43,000 (the maximum) for operating a worldwide cartel in titanium pigments. The companies were already under court order to license titanium production at a reasonable royalty...
...figures estimated for the DP's expenses are: average room rate, $220; board, $410; personal expenses (absolute minimum), $220; total...